May
5, 2011, the first Thursday in May, was America’s annual "National
Day of Prayer" by Act of Congress, 36 U.S.Code Sec. 119: “The
President shall issue each year a proclamation designating the first
Thursday in May as a National Day of Prayer on which the people of the
United States may turn to God in prayer and meditation at churches,
in groups, and as individuals.”

On
April 29, 2011, President Barack Hussein Obama pursuant to that law
issued a Proclamation stating: “NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA,
President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim May 5,
2011, as a National Day of Prayer. I invite all citizens of our Nation,
as their own faith or conscience directs them, to join me in giving
thanks for the many blessings we enjoy, and I ask all people of faith
to join me in asking God for guidance, mercy, and protection for our
Nation.”

However,
the National Day of Prayer was all but completely ignored on May 5 as
the liberal, “progressive” politically correct politicians,
media, and education bureaucrats and teachers, continued the farce of
celebrating Cinco de Mayo as a grand day which Americans should celebrate
a supposed glory day of Mexico -- although in fact even Mexico does
not recognize “Cinco de Mayo” as a day of celebration.

On
the National Day of Prayer, the liberal media, printed and broadcast
not calls to prayer, but, rather, “Happy Cinco de Mayo”
greetings to Americans. Governmental agencies carried out “Cinco
de Mayo” celebrations by government employees in public taxpayer-supported
facilities all over the country, including on what would be “work
time” in the private employment sector, but not in the politically-correct
public employment sector.

America’s
government schools overflowed with celebrations of “Cinco de Mayo”
led by overwhelmingly liberal education bureaucrats and teachers, while
America’s “National Day of Prayer” was ignored in
the progressive curricula.

Indeed,
American school kids were not told by their overwhelmingly liberal,
politically-correct teachers of the history of the American National
Day of Prayer, going all the way back to George Washington in 1775.
Instead, the kids were propagandized about Mexico's great victory (sic)
over the French in the Battle of Pueblo. Alas, however, they weren’t
educated to the fact that it was a singular, and shortlived "victory,"
as Napoleon III sent in the French troops and quickly trounced the Mexican
army, won the war, and re-took Mexico.

As
for Obama, while he went to Ground Zero to celebrate bringing Osama
bin Laden to justice, he appeared to ignore his own proclamation for
Americans to observe a National Day Of Prayer in his public remarks.
If he referenced May 5 as the National Day of Prayer, it was not noticeable
in the media reports. Obama did, however, publicly recognize the celebration
of Cinco de Mayo. He even informed a nation craving leadership on the
economy as the unemployment rolls crept up along with gasoline and food
prices, that Michelle Obama, the regime’s Czarina on what-Americans-should-eat,
“loves Mexican food.” He further informed that it is very
dangerous to “get between Michelle and a tamale,” which
the adoring liberal media duly reported for the edification of Americans
on “Cinco de Mayo.”

May
I respectfully suggest that it is rather pathetic, and demeaning, that
the U.S. should decide that a day should be set aside as purportedly
honoring a foreign country for its victory in a single battle while
otherwise losing every battle and the war. Also, in my opinion, it is
utterly demeaning for U.S. politically correct liberals, politicians,
media, and teachers to "celebrate" a day to honor Mexicans
which Mexico itself declines to celebrate. How would we Americans like
it if Mexico decided to honor Americans in Mexico by celebrating a day
that Americans do not deem worthy of celebrating regarding our own history
or heritage?

Further,
in my opinion, if “Cinco de Mayo” is intended to recognize
and honor Americans of Mexican descent, then it is an insult to the
hundreds of thousands of Americans of Mexican descent who have fought,
and are fighting today, in defense of American freedom in war. The great
contributions of those American veterans of Mexican descent should be
recognized and celebrated, and taught to the children in our schools,
and not a concocted politically-correct day to advance the multi-cultural
agenda of liberal progressives by celebration of a battle which a foreign
country, Mexico, won in a war that it quickly lost, and it would rather
forget than celebrate.

“Cinco
de Mayo” has given something from the culture of Mexico to America:
It has given to America what Time magazine called the "Seventh
Drunkest Day of the Year." If “Cinco de Mayo” is going
to be observed at all, it ought to be recognized with a moment of silence
for all the Americans killed or injured on American roads by Mexican
nationals driving under the influence. Mexican nationals are manifestly
disproportionately overrepresented among those guilty of driving drunk,
maiming and killing Americans. Driving drunk is in fact a tradition
in Mexico, as anyone who has driven or read a newspaper there –
or here --knows. Drunk driving by Mexican nationals is but another way
American lives are being enriched by multi-culturalism, diversity, and
illegal aliens importing the failed, corrupt Mexican culture into America.

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Meanwhile,
as expressions of "Happy Cinco de Mayo Day" ring out from
liberal media and politicians seeking votes on the National Day of Prayer,
American atheists continue their legal assault on the American tradition
of a National Day of Prayer on the first Thursday in May. The atheists
of the Freedom From Religion Foundation (isn't that what Lenin, Stalin,
Mao, and Pol Pot were about?) have appealed to the Seventh Circuit Court
of Appeal in Chicago for a rehearing en banc, after that circuit recently
held that atheists do not have legal "standing" to sue against
the American tradition of a National Day of Prayer.

The
Alliance Defense Fund has won an important victory in the Day of Prayer
case (Freedom From Religion Foundation vs. Dobson, et al., 7th Circuit),
especially on the issue of legal "standing," which ordinarily
requires a litigant to have a legally cognizable injury in order to
sue. The Seventh Circuit ruled that a feeling of "alienation,"
i.e., hurt feelings, taking offense at acts or symbols reflecting America's
own religious history or heritage, is not a cognizable injury conferring
"standing" to sue.

However,
that important victory by the Alliance Defense Fund, and the American
tradition of a National Day of Prayer, are all but ignored by the contemporary
liberal media, government, and schools, as they celebrate Cinco de Mayo.

Thanks
to the ultra-liberal, progressive ACLU, kids in American schools can't
utter a prayer on the National Day of Prayer. But they can be propagandized
on Cinco de Mayo about the glories of Mexico, an utterly corrupt, failed
state, ruled by a wealthy oligarchy who will remain in corrupt power
as long as they can export millions of their own people into the U.S.
rather than have them remain in Mexico and demand necessary reforms.

As
American schools have American children dancing about in Mexican costumes
to Mexican music on “Cinco de Mayo,” it should be noted
in regard to cultural enrichment that the most popular form of contemporary
Mexican music is the “corrido” celebrating narco gangsters
as heroes and Mexican cultural icons. More than 36,000 Mexicans have
been slaughtered in the ongoing narco wars of those Mexican cultural
heroes who are being honored by “Narco Bands” in “Narco
Music,” i.e., more deaths than America suffered in the Korean
War.

Today,
in Southern Arizona, there are signs posted warning Americans not to
travel in our own country due to the dangers presented by the invasion
of illegal aliens through our porous borders, including narco trafficers.
Never in our history before the Obama regime have we Americans been
told we cannot safely travel in our own country due to the threat presented
by foreign nationals illegally traversing our borders with impunity.
Mexico and Mexican nationals, combined with the politically-correct
do-nothing Obama Regime, have not only created these “No Go Zones”
in Southern Arizona, they have made Phoenix, AZ, the “Kidnapping
Capital of the World.” Worse then the Middle East, worse than
Somalia, worse even than Mexico itself, and that is saying something.

Meanwhile,
President Barack Hussein Obama, former attorney for ACORN and self-declared
political “progressive” who has stated that the “Rules
For Radicals” of the self-declared socialist “revolutionist”
Sol Alinsky are “burned into my [Obama’s] brain,”
and Attorney General Eric Holder, self-declared liberal progressive
and former attorney for the Al Queda-linked attempted “dirty bomber”
Jose Padillo, are acting to protect Americans from foreign invaders
from Mexico by suing Arizona for trying to do what Obama and Holder
have failed to do -- their duty to protect Americans, their first and
foremost duty under the Constitution.

Notwithstanding
these Mexican outrages and the failures of the Obama regime to cure
and correct them, Americans are urged by politicians from the White
House on down, and by liberal media, to celebrate "Cinco de Mayo.
" Our children are lied to in schools by politically correct liberal
teachers and administrators that it is a significant day in Mexican
history and culture, a myth which even the Mexicans decline to accept.
Indeed, the very rich ruling class Mexican oligarchy is no doubt laughing-all-the-way-to-the
bank at American gullibility as we celebrate "Cinco de Mayo"
and they celebrate counting the $17-billion sent back to Mexico annually
from the U.S. economy by Mexico's greatest export-- its own people,
whom the corrupt Mexican oligarchy and government encourage to illegally
invade America.

On
the first Thursday in May, as General Washington first said as Commander-in-Chief
of the Continental Army in 1775, and the U.S. Congress codified in 1952
(36 U.S.C. Section 119), Americans should celebrate America’s
National Day of Prayer, not a concocted cultural myth concerning a foreign,
failed state.

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As
for Cinco de Mayo, Americans should not celebrate a day which even Mexico
does not, but, instead, address two words to the corrupt, wealthy, ruling
class Mexican oligarchy and government, as well as to the Mexican nationals
they send here illegally, including murderous Mexican drug trafficers
and kidnappers further corrupting our country: Ya Basta! (Enough!)

REES
LLOYD is a longtime civil rights attorney and veterans activist whose
work has been honored by, among others, the California Senate and Assembly,
and numerous civil rights, workers rights, and veterans rights organizations.
He has testified as a constitutional expert at hearings before the U.S.
House and Senate representing The American Legion.

He
has been profiled, and his work featured, by such varied print media
as the Los Angeles Times and American Legion Magazine, and such broadcast
media as ABC's Nightline and 20/20, Fox News In The Morning, and, among
others, by Hannity. His writings have appeared in a variety of national,
regional, and local newspaper, magazine, and other publications. He
is a frequent radio commentator, and a sought after speaker.*

[*For identification only. The views expressed here are solely Rees
Lloyd's and not necessarily any person, entity or organization he may
otherwise represent. ]

On the first Thursday
in May, as General Washington first said as Commander-in-Chief of the
Continental Army in 1775, and the U.S. Congress codified in 1952 (36 U.S.C.
Section 119), Americans should celebrate America’s National Day
of Prayer, not a concocted cultural myth concerning a foreign, failed
state.